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Shadow brushed a stray strand of wet hair out of his eyes, smiling. "I've lived in or at least visited France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, England...all of Europe, really...Iceland, Australia...my personal favorite is Italy, my homeland."
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Maria started combing her fingers through her wet hair. "Hmmm...that's a lot of places...why do you like italy so much? Besides the fact that it's your homeland." She smiled.
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"Italy was the centrifuge of the Renaissance," Shadow responded simply, wringing out his hair. "It is a place of culture and sophistication, as well as the birthplace of many incredible works of art, and the home of the ancient Roman Empire. It's a beautiful country, full of history and personality."
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Maria didn't get how a country could have personally, but she shrugged it off. "I see. I suppose it does have a lot of history to it." She smiles more before getting up. "want to walk along the beach?"
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Shadow stood up, shaking himself off slightly. "Sure. I would love to."
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Maria smiled and walked out of the water. She then started to walk along the right shore of the beach. In the distance it was clear that eventually the beach led into a forest, but that seemed like a long ways away. "So when you went to the beach in those countries....what did you normally do?"
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"Usually? I would walk the length of the beach...collect unique shells. Look for wildlife. Take pictures. I used to be quite the avid photographer..." Shadow reminisced, dreamily, as he walked with her.
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((Time for me to get to bed not XD lol))
Maria smiled. "Sounds like usual stuff...And would you think of ever becoming a photographer again?" |
((XD I've got major testing periods tomorrow at school. And I still have a project to do, if I even decide to do it. I've been slacking majorly this year--I don't even know why. XD I've just lost all motivation to do anything useful, unless it's a subject I really like. *such as History, or Drafting And Design, or English* Everything else is just...bleeegghhh. The project is for the class I hate the most. MATH. :gonk: I don't think I'm going to bother with it until tomorrow. If at all.))
"I snap a photo every now and then..." Shadow amended, smiling. "Nothing professional grade, of course. But I would like to get into the art of photography again sometime..." |
((Bleh, even if you don't like the class you should still do well in it because it will bring your GPA down if you don't. I evilly can't seem to get to sleep X_X))
Maria continues to smile. "I'd love to see some of your photos sometime if you don't mind showing them to me. I've never been out of the U.S. after all." |
((At this point, not even my GPA matters to me all that much anymore. I'm doing well in the classes I need for the possible career (s) I want, and the rest don't matter all that much to me.))
Shadow nodded, content. "Sure...I would love to share. I rarely ever share my photos..." |
((Yeah but some employers will look at those grades and wonder why you didn't do that well, though I don't know how many actually do that.))
Maria looked absolutely delighted by this. "Awesome! Do you want to bring them to school or....?" She left it as a hanging question, not sure what the other option might be. |
((I'm thinking about a career as a video game designer *making the story/characters/gameplay rules/storyline/plot-esque type of stuff* or something involving history. Any class that isn't important towards making those careers work isn't really important to me. :sweat: I'm weird.))
"I can bring them to school...but they must stay in the albums I put them in," Shadow added, pointedly. "With your friend being so adamant about making me miserable, I fear she may try to do something to them. The albums are waterproof, among other things. I will bring one per day, so I can keep track of it." |
((Everyone is weird in some way. and that sounds like a cool career :) ))
Maria frowned while thinking of all the things that Lanina might try to do during the school year. If she was to keep hanging around Shadow, surely she would have to try and figure out a way to get Lanina to back off sometime. "That sounds good." She smiled at him, noticing that they were almost to the edge of the beach. |
((I am proud to be weird. :squee: And it does, doesn't it? I really want that sort of job. ^^))
Shadow nodded, smiling, and then he also noticed how far they had walked. "Oh...we are near the end. Would you like to start heading back?" |
((I hope things go smoothly for you^^))
Maria nodded a bit "Yeah, it's going to start getting dark if we don't go back soon." She then turned around and started walking back along the beach. |
Shadow walked with her, feeling oddly like he was being watched. He brushed it off, however, and kept walking, seeming quite content. He had had fun today.
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((Sorry about taking longer than normal to post))
Maria decided that she kind of liked how they had fallen silent. She continued to walk along the beach, and was merely looking at the water and thinking. Eventually she decided that today had been one of the best days of her life, minus the Lanina thing. |
((It's okay. ^^))
Shadow seemed to be quite content and peaceful walking in silence, listening to the waves. This was the most content he'd felt around a human for a long, long time. It was...sort of peculiar. |
Maria started walking to Shadow's car before she suddenly decided to break the silence. "Today has over all been the best first day of any school year of my life." she thought for a bit "at least the most interesting."
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Shadow smiled, contently. "I'm glad to hear that. It's been quite enjoyable for me, as well. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. Where to, now? Somewhere else, or should we head home?"
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Maria smiled. She was glad that he had had a good time as well. Carefully she thought about his question and finally answered, "Well....I would love to stay out later but really I should get home. I'll be in enough trouble as it is with having skipped class....I don't want to add staying out really late to that list."
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Shadow nodded as he stepped into his car. "All right. Where to? I will need directions to get to your place."
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Maria got into the passenger side of the car and sighed some. "when you get back to the highway from these dirty roads, you're going to turn left. My house is then exactly five miles down the road and on the right."
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Shadow nodded, revving his Jaguar up. He drove back up the dirt road and followed her instructions, to a T. He pulled up in front of her home and parked his car, skillfully. He turned to her, smiling. "I will see you tomorrow, I suppose..."
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